SocialEngine 4 - Blank Sign Up & Sign In pages... :-/ - php

Wondering if someone can help...
I am running PHP 5.3.6, on Windows Server 2008 R2, with IIS 7.5 & Helicon APE (Apache module for .htaccess files)
I have a legitimate serial number from socialengine.net (although my support tickets have expired.)
I downloaded 4.1.8p1 from "My Account" and unzipped directly into the web root (no need to FTP as I'm working directly on the host server)
I went through the install with no probs, everything went as expected.
When I goto "Sign In" or "Sign Up" I get nothing but a blank page. As far as I know all folders that require the 755 equivalent are set. I can upload & activate plugins with no probs etc.
Development mode reveals nothing, and even with all error reporting on in php.ini I still don't get any error... FirePHP doesn't report anything either (except the norm debug info)
I currently have no 3rd party plugins installed, it is a brand new installation, yet the 2 pages just will not work :( :(
Anyone got any ideas on how I can find out what the problem is??
Domain is http://dance-network.net
Many thanks in advance!
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A blank page usually means a PHP script error. We suggest going through the code of the page that is not showing up and trying to print errors with:
ini_set('display_errors', 'on');
error_reporting(E_ALL);
However some servers (such as the ones that run on Parallels Plesk) have error reporting disabled. We suggest enabling error reporting or going through line by line with print statements to see where the error might be occurring.

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As I am using the local hosting of MAMP but " There has been a critical error on this website" this is error is coming. What should I do?

As I am using the local hosting of MAMPbut " There has been a critical error on this website" this is error is coming. What should I do?
Diagnostic steps worth giving a shot, follow from top to bottom order;
Is MAMP really running with Web server (and additionally the database server)?
Do you see the default MAMP index/home screen?
Put a simple HELLO WORLD HTML document to your project root and check if you can see it on browser
Put a simple HELLO WORLD PHP script to your project root and check if you can see it on browser
At this point, if everything above went well, it is definitely an issue with your actual PHP script, check the PHP error log file
Put an INFO.PHP PHP script at your project root and check you have all the required extensions available for your PHP project
Check if database connection is working (if required)
At this point, I cannot imagine what else would go wrong, try PHP debugger (xDebug needs to be installed with MAMP and your PHP editor may need a configuration for this) with break points and step into each line of your PHP code with debugger.

php script appears as a blank screen

I'm trying to run a php script on my website through my file manager but it just shows a white blank screen. I ran a couple of test php scripts on my file manager and runs well. The php script that runs a blank screen has been tested offline with WAMP and works fine, The php script involves connecting to a database which it does, uses simple_html_dom for web scraping and inserting to a database. Can someone please help. Surely if it works offline it should work online no error messages are showing
Turn on your error reporting first :
error_reporting(E_ALL);
It might be occurring because you have switched off the error_reporting and the connection is not being successful.
Check if your database connection credentials are correct.
If the problem still exists, refer to this page :
PHP Blank Screen - Solutions
Make your error reporting on by
error_reporting(E_ALL);
Also, please check php's error log file.
Every page crash is printed there.
Generally, in php folders of WAMP, XAMPP.
For XAMPP in Windows, the file location is:
xampp\php\logs\php_error_log

Blank pages after installing PHP on IIS

I am attempting to install PHP onto Windows Server 2008 R2. I have followed the instructions here but when I try to load phpinfo.php I get a blank page.
There are no errors in the Event Viewer.
The server is used to host multiple other Asp.Net websites but I am using PHP so that I can install MediaWiki.
UPDATE:
When trying to load simple HTML (with no PHP) it also loads as blank. The fix for this seems to be to enable "Static Content" in the "Turn Windows features On/Off" manager - but this is already in place.
This happened to me as well just running the handy dandy php installer microsoft has on their site using their Web Platform Installer and it turned out in the php.ini file by default short_open_tag by default is off so my code
<?
print("hello world!");
?>
would not work because it was expecting
<?php
print("hello world!");
?>
.... so yea ... just go and change that if this is your problem too!
If copying over an old Wordpress installation from an old server - make sure you copy ALL the files. Oops... <embarassed>
A blank page is also possible when there is an PHP error and error reporting is of. Try to run the script below to see what happens.
<html>
<body>
Hello HTML
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
echo "Hello PHP";
?>
</body>
</html>
You could also try to see if a normal HTML page with PHP extentions runs fine. Perhaps your server is setup to disallow PHP extention.
You have to configure fastCGI for each PHP website, more details you can find here - Best Practices for Configuring FastCGI and PHP
So I found the solution after hours of randomly trying things. I removed and re-added the Static Content role in Windows - still same result. Then I edited the Error Pages feature of the website in IIS to say return Detailed Error Messages. At this point PHP started to complain about the timezone so I set to "Europe\London" - for this to take effect you need to restart IIS.
After that it worked, phpinfo now loads!
I had this issue; at "turn Windows features on or off", I enabled:
HTTP Errors
Server-Side Includes
Directory Browsing
Windows Authentication
I also set these options in C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.3\php.ini:
display_errors = On
display_startup_errors = On
After that, a 401 Unauthorized error was displayed. I added 'Everyone' and 'Users' groups to the folder to fix.

PHP error handling has disappeared since upgrading to mountain lion

I recently installed mountain lion, and when I went to start apache from XAMPP I got an error requesting I disabling web sharing in order for XAMPP to work. After some research I found a command which would turn of the apache that comes bundled with mountain lion. This worked and apache from XAMPP started.
However the next thing I have noticed is im no longer getting error handling.
Im using fuelphp, however instead of an error message when there are issues with my code I get a blank page with the words NO DATA RECEIVED :S.
For example removing a ; from the end of line, results in the above opposed to a readble error message.
I checked the frameworks index.php file which has error reporitng on
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
Could any one give me a step by step explanation of how to get my error reporting back :'(
I have the same problem on Max OS X too. It's definitely a server configuration issue as exactly the same code works perfectly well on Windows and multiple Linux environments.
My Apache/PHP was installed on the Mac through XAMPP. Others who are suffering from the same issue, please let me know in the comments if you too are using XAMPP. I want to track down the exact server config that is causing this problem.
For now, I have a hacky workaround:
In fuel/core/bootstrap.php, add this to the top of your register_shutdown_function
$last_error = error_get_last();
if (is_array($last_error) && \Fuel::$env == \Fuel::DEVELOPMENT && in_array($last_error['type'], array(4, 1, 256, 64))) {
exit();
}
Weird thing is though, it's hit and miss as to whether it catches the error. So I sometimes have to refresh a few times.
Oh and you must set the environment to DEVELOPMENT. This is to stop leaking errors in production deployed sites.
EDIT:: It seems that MAMP (latest version 2.1.2 at time of writing) does not suffer from this issue. Neither does XAMPP 1.8.1-beta1. So you could also try using those.

oci_connect Blank Page in PHP

UPDATE (5/21/2010) SUCCESS!
So after MUCH $head->desk()'ing, I've solved it.
Remember kids, be wary of the instant client version you use, dependent on the virtualization settings!
I had been installing the generic Instant Client (not aware our ESX servers sit on AMD processors, not Intel) and that worked fine internally (the CentOS install was 32-bit since our internal ESXi servers aren't 64-bit). Well lo-and-behold, even if you have a 32-bit install running on a virtualized server which is sitting on an AMD64, it still matters what instant client you install.
It was the last thing I thought to check but as it appears, everything is running fine now.
I would like to thank everyone who helped me run through every possible test to figure this out but in the end, it was my fault for not realizing the differences in the virtualizations.
UPDATE (5/21/2010)
I thought this bug had escaped me when I installed it on a new VM internally but I have now found a narrowing link.
I was trying to install this on our production server when I posted this. After a week of no progress and in need to get back to development, I outfitted a VM on our internal server with a brand new install of Crap... CentOS, and fresh installs of instant client and oci8.
Worked perfectly.
However we just uploaded an exact copy of the VM to our production servers and it magically no longer works. Tried reinstalling everything, no avail.
So the only things I could narrow it down to is a firewall issue (although I get the same issue when trying 127.0.0.1) or possibly an ESX (our production servers) server issue, internal servers are running ESXi.
Any thoughts?
UPDATE (3/8/2010) I installed Xdebug and have it tracing my code. This is the output I am getting:
TRACE START [2010-03-08 17:53:05]
0.2090 327864 -> {main}() /data/aims3/http/octest.php:0
0.2091 327988 -> ini_set(string(14), string(1)) /data/aims3/http/octest.php:3
0.2093 327920 -> error_reporting(long) /data/aims3/http/octest.php:4
0.2094 328048 -> oci_connect(string(8), string(8), string(25)) /data/aims3/http/octest.php:6
The trace halts at that point.
I have installed everything the same way on a local server and it works fine. To say I am at a complete loss would be putting it lightly.
*NOTE: I ran make test and it returned FAIL on every test. I never ran this on my working machine to see if it reports the same errors. Any idea why make test would report FAIL but make doesn't report any error?
I've installed the Oracle Instantclient with no reported errors along with the OCI8 PECL package and at a loss. Whenever I try to open a connection with oci_connect, it halts my entire PHP script.
EXAMPLE:
<?php
ini_set ("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);
echo "before";
$conn = oci_connect("username", "password", "host");
echo "after";
?>
Returns a complete blank page. The module is loaded (seen in phpinfo) and everything installed with no errors.
I am at a complete loss.
CentOS: 5.4
Apache: 2.2.3
PHP: 5.3.1
InstantClient: 11.2
oci8: 1.4.1
Any thoughts?
NOTES
Apache Error Log reports nothing
Attempted Debugging:
1:
<?php
ini_set ("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);
echo "before";
if(!function_exists('oci_connect')) die('Oracle Not Installed');
echo "after";
?>
Returns:
beforeafter
2:
Changing host to //host
Returns:
Same error
Is there anything in Apache's error_log? Is this mod_php or FastCGI or normal CGI PHP? What happens if you run the script via the command line?
You could also try setting PHP's error log and looking in there.
EDIT1: Try:
echo "before";
if(!function_exists('oci_connect')) die('Oracle Not Installed');
And post the results...
EDIT2: I'm really not sure. My best bet is this info from the PHP manual:
The most common problem with
installing OCI8 is not having the
Oracle environment correctly set. This
typically appears as a problem using
oci_connect() or oci_pconnect(). The
error may be a PHP error such as Call
to undefined function oci_connect(),
an Oracle error such as ORA-12705, or
even an Apache crash. Check the Apache
log files for startup errors and see
the sections above to resolve this
problem.
Anyone else have any ideas to help out Bryan?
Bryan,
I am going to be honest: I tried this two years ago and failed miserably. :) I could not get the OCI functions to work for anything by compiling myself.
But in the interest of getting it done I looked for an alternate solution and found it in Zend Core for Oracle. All I did was download, run the installer, and it was done. It installs Apache/PHP, MySQL (optional), and the InstantClient for you.
Now as Zend Server, it is basically the same product. I realize that this may not be the solution you hoped for, but if it works...
Zend Server
are you connecting to remote or to local db? i think, for localhost you must replace "host" with "false". I hope, this will help you...
edit: i think, you are missing a parameter...my last suggestions are: 1. you must set the port (default 1521) AND/OR 2. You must enter db name AND/OR you must set the instance name (the ORACLE_SID parameter)
You never check the return value of oci_connect() or call oci_error() but it doesn't look relevant to your problem since you seem to be suffering from a PHP crash. There's an open bug for RHEL that may affect you too:
http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16626
Did you build the oci8 package yourself? Are you using a third-party binary?
It has been fixed. See the top for details but here is the cliff notes: virtualiztion environments matter.

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